Author's Response

Charter Member of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York and of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, the late Dr. Sperling was also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Division of Psychoanalytic Education; Training and Supervising Analyst in the Faculties for Adult and for Child Analysis at the Psychoanalytic Institute there; Chairman of the Post-Graduate Psychoanalytic Study Group on Psychosomatics; and Consultant, Veterans Administration Hospital, Northport, N.Y. As former Director of the Department of Child Psychiatry at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Member of the Faculty of the Joint Committee for Postgraduate Education of the Kings County Medical Association, she initiated the teaching of psychoanalytic child psychiatry there to the medical profession 30 years ago. Dr. Sperling authored 70 psychoanalytic articles and was the recipient of the Clinical Essay Prize for Psychoanalysis.